1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Suspense! 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:13,500 Tonight, Mr. Dane Clark, as star of Spoils for Victor, a suspense play produced, edited, 3 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:19,000 and directed by William Spear. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Suspense! 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Can he talk, Doc? 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,000 I wouldn't advise it. 7 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Maybe what you ought to ask is, will he talk? 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Oh, I thought you were asleep. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Hi, Harry. 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Remember me, do you? 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 You had me down to the DA's office enough times, so I ought to... 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 I didn't talk those times either, remember? 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 You ought to save your strength as much as you can, Mr. Reddicker. 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Doc here thinks I'm going to die. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Are you? 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 I don't think so. 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,000 I don't think I'm going to talk either. 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 There's some questions we've got to have the answers to. 19 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,000 If we don't get them from you, Vic, we're going to have to get them from somebody else. 20 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Oh. 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 What kind of questions? 22 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 About those two slugs you got in your ribs, among other things. 23 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 They're not in there anymore, at least, that's what the Doc tells me. 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 All right, Vic, I'm sorry. 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Wait. 26 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,000 William and Harry. 27 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Yeah? 28 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Listen, I don't know how she feels about this, but if I talk, you've got to leave her out. 29 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 All together, out, complete. 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 See? 31 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 That could be, Vic. 32 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 You've always been a pretty right guy, Harry. 33 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,000 Is that on a level? 34 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,000 On a level, Vic. 35 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 All right. 36 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Maybe you can sell it to pictures. 37 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Alan Ladd. 38 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:52,000 You could call it the gangster and the lady. 39 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 You know the mob, Bonnie Bernard, Pinky Roberts, and the rest. 40 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:01,000 As far as they're concerned, it doesn't matter much now what I tell you, I guess. 41 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,000 We were never big operators, nothing really big time, but we always had plenty of money in our pocket most of the time. 42 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 But this time I'm talking about the dive had been pretty long. 43 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:19,000 My pants were getting shiny in their seat, my shoes were getting holes from walking instead of riding, even Barney was getting a little rusty looking. 44 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:25,000 And this one day, he's sitting around the office with Pinky when I come in and his chin is down around his belt buckle someplace. 45 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Hi, Vic. 46 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Hi, cutie. 47 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Hi there, what's new? 48 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I hear there's a depression on it, want to think about it? 49 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Ah, forget it, there's no money in it. 50 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Hey, did he cut the phone off yet? 51 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 He thinks he's kidding. 52 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Who you want to phone, a home relief? 53 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 A Dame, bet you three to one. 54 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 One what? 55 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Why do you care, you ain't got it. 56 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Dames, Dames, Dames, boy I ain't never seen nothing like this guy with Dames. 57 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 They buzz around him like he was John D. Rockefeller. 58 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 There you go, always looking at the seamy side. 59 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 Some Dames like you for what you are, not what you got. 60 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Sure, I know that kind, your mother and your grandmother. 61 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Hello, hello, is Madeline there? 62 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 63 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Victor Ruttega, who's calling some guy said she's probably married. 64 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 So what, she'd give you the phone number, didn't she? 65 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Hello, Madeline? 66 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Yeah, remember? 67 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Ha ha, say who's the guy answering the phone? 68 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Oh, so you got a sense of humor too, huh? 69 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,000 The butler, she said. 70 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 I just called up to say hello, I don't like to let these things get cold, you know. 71 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 That's right. 72 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:22,000 What do you do with yourself? 73 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Well, now for instance. 74 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 I see. 75 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Hey sure, sure I would. 76 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,000 Where do you live? 77 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Wait, wait, wait, wait till I write it down. 78 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Uh huh, uh huh. 79 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Okay, I'll do that. 80 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Goodbye now. 81 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Hey, where is the place called Woodford Way? 82 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Woodford Way? 83 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Yeah, you ever hear of it? 84 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Yeah, it's in Bel Air, Vic. 85 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Bel Air? 86 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Yeah. 87 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Hey, that's pretty big stuff, ain't it? 88 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Yeah, plenty. 89 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Say, you don't suppose she does have a butler, do you? 90 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Sure, there's a butler all right, and she's the maid. 91 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 What's she like, Vic? How'd you meet her? 92 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Well, I'm just walking along Vine Street, rubbing my last two nickels together. 93 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 She comes out of a joint with her arms full of bundles, she bangs into me. 94 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 She goes one way, the bundles go the other, I pick her up. 95 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 So one thing leads to another, I buy her a cup of coffee, 96 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,000 and I got her phone number before she decides to have another one, 97 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 I scram, that's all. 98 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Nothing special, but she looks like she wouldn't try to promote you 99 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 for much more than a ticket to the movies, 100 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 and that's the best offer I had all week, so I gave her a ring. 101 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Come up and see me, she said. 102 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 So I figure what can I lose, right? 103 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Right. 104 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,000 What's her name? Madeline what? 105 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Well, she didn't tell me, but the guy on the phone, wherever he was, 106 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,000 he said it was, uh, Rawlins, Rawlies, something like that. 107 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,000 So what? 108 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You don't read the papers much, do you, Vic? 109 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 I guess I know where the horses are running as well as the next guy. 110 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Why? Is that her? That dame in the picture, is that her? 111 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Yeah. Yeah! 112 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,000 You see what it says? 113 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Madeline Rawlins opened up the lair home. 114 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Wealthy Sugar Harris, whose personal fortune makes her one of the world's richest girl- 115 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Holy smokes! 116 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,000 You ought to keep up on those things. 117 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 That's her, all right! That's her! 118 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Oh, of all the dumb luck, boy, you got it. 119 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Yeah. Hey, I might be able to shake a little of that sugar out of there at that, huh? 120 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 What's the trouble with you, Vic? You think too small. 121 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Sure, what you want to do is marry the dame. 122 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Well, what's so funny about that? 123 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Maybe I've been underestimating your talents, Vic. 124 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 All right, funny man, what? 125 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Funnier things have happened, Vic. 126 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 Are you kidding? 127 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 No. 128 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Ah, Barney, be yourself. So maybe the dame does go for me for a couple of weeks. 129 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 All right, a couple of months, because I'm different from the guy she's been going around with. 130 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 But take a guy like me serious? 131 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 And nuts. 132 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Maybe we could do something about that so you wouldn't be so different. 133 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 So what? So what if I even- even if I did marry the dame, 134 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 do you think I could stick up with a setup like that? 135 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I'd be out of my ear in six months. 136 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 A lot can happen in six months, Vic. 137 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Nothing that I couldn't make happen in six weeks and without any marrying. 138 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Oh, yes it could, Vic. 139 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,000 What? 140 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Something could happen to her. 141 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Like what? 142 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Like an accident. Accidents happen all the time. 143 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 And they got community property laws in this state. 144 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Oh. 145 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,000 See? 146 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Nothing doing. 147 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Okay, okay. 148 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 You're going out to see her though, aren't you? 149 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Yeah, I guess so. 150 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Yeah. You might need it. 151 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Thanks, bro. 152 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Fifty? What's that for? 153 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I just want you to make a good impression on the girl, that's all. 154 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Thanks. 155 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 And think about it, Vic. 156 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 I did all right. 157 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,000 I guess that's all I did think about the whole of that first afternoon I was out there to see her. 158 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I didn't see her again for over two weeks. 159 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Because that night we decided. 160 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Barney put up nearly all the cash he had left. 161 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 He bought me a car, a suite of rooms that the ambassador closed. 162 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,000 That's one of our very nicest numbers, Mr. Ruddigan. 163 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 It looks just stunning on you. 164 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,000 $185. 165 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 Leave or see something that ain't quite so worth. 166 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Well, shut up. We'll take it. 167 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Splendid. How about shirts? Ties? 168 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 I went around places. We hired a publicity agent. 169 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,000 I was supposed to be a wealthy young oil man. 170 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 We even hired a guy to try to teach me to talk better. 171 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 All right, Mr. Ruddigan. Repeat after me, please. 172 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 The house in Moiffy features turtle soup and oyster soup. 173 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,000 No, no, no, no, Mr. Ruddigan. You have it just backwards. 174 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Turtle soup and oyster stew. 175 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Uh, turtle soup and oyster stew. 176 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Again, please. 177 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 The house in Moiffy features... 178 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 No, no, no, no. 179 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 After two weeks I looked a little better. 180 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Enough to get by in small doses anyway. 181 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 And I began to go out and see her again. 182 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 And after two months I wouldn't have known myself because... 183 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,000 I was standing in a striped pants and a cutaway coat and shirt. 184 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,000 And she was standing there beside me. 185 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 And the minister was standing in front of both of us. 186 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Do you, Victor, take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife? 187 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:59,000 To have and to hold, to love and to cherish from this day forth. 188 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:08,000 For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, in health, until death do you part? 189 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 I do. 190 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 Do you, Madeleine, take this man to be your lawful wedded husband? 191 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,000 And all the time all I could think of was that it was funny. 192 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:23,000 And kind of tough too when you stop to figure how a woman is supposed to feel at a time like this. 193 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:29,000 That when she spoke those two little words, she'd be signing her own death warrant. 194 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:49,000 I do. 195 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 In six months, Bonnie and Pinky and me were going to be rich. 196 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,000 And she was going to be dead. 197 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:02,000 I didn't have any feelings about her at first. Inside of me I was feeling like an old stray dog that just found a swell home. 198 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,000 I was tired. 199 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I hadn't known how terribly sick and tired the years of snarling and snapping for every bone had made me. 200 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 And so at first I just stretched my paws out to the fire. 201 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,000 I lay around in the sun and enjoyed myself. 202 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,000 I didn't even mind, Madeleine. 203 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,000 Then after I got over feeling tired, something else began inside. Something began eating me. 204 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Just a little thing at first, but it got bigger. 205 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:34,000 I didn't know what it was except I knew it wasn't my conscience. I hadn't had one of those since I was ten years old. 206 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 For a while I thought maybe I was just missing the old gang, the old ways. 207 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 But that didn't fit either. 208 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,000 And then one day, we'd been married about four months then, and we were going out for dinner. 209 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,000 I was upstairs getting ready, and I passed by her dressing room, and she was in there with her maid fixing her hair. 210 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Well, there you are. You'd better hurry if you expect to take me out anywhere. 211 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Yeah, I will. Say, that's a new hairdo, isn't it? 212 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,000 It will be. You like it? 213 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Yeah, it looks kind of cute. 214 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 Hand me the dryer now, will you, Marie? 215 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Yes, Madame. 216 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,000 What's that? 217 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Electric hair dryer. You've seen me use it before. 218 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,000 I don't remember. 219 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Don't bother, Marie. I'll plug it in. You can go now. 220 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Yes, Madame. 221 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Hey, hey, wait a minute. You ought to be careful handling those electric gimmicks when your hands are wet that way. 222 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Oh, silly, I've been doing this. 223 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Madeleine! Madeleine! 224 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Get a doctor, Marie! Get a doctor! 225 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Oh, yes, Monsieur. 226 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Then I was down on the floor beside her remembering from somewhere that with people who had an electric shot, 227 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:33,000 she gave them artificial respiration, and I pressed my hands against her ribs, and I was talking to her without hardly knowing myself what I was saying. 228 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Madeleine! Madeleine, baby! 229 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Come on, baby, come on, snap out of it. You're going to be all right, baby. You've got to be. 230 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Oh, please, baby, please. Please, please. 231 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 What happened? 232 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Oh, Madeleine. 233 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Are you all right? 234 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 I'm sick. You're crying. 235 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Me? You're crazy. Oh, baby, baby. 236 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:11,000 So there it was. So now I knew. Because if I'd just stood there, she'd have died. 237 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:17,000 But I couldn't stand there. Not for all the money in the treasury could I have stood there. 238 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Because I was in love with her. 239 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 I tried. I tried to keep my mind on all that money and what I could do with it. 240 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:36,000 I tried to tell myself that no dame was worth that much to me or to any other guy. 241 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 And all the time I was going nuts. 242 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 I wasn't fit to be living with wild animals and say nothing to a girl like Madeleine. 243 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Vic, have you decided about going up to Arrowhead this next weekend? 244 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,000 What? 245 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Vic, please put down the paper and listen to me. 246 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Where are you going? 247 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Uh, business. I got a little deal. 248 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Oh, it must be quite a deal, Vic, to make you feel the way you have been lately. 249 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:08,000 It is, Madeleine. Quite a deal. 250 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Hiya, playboy. How's it coming? 251 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Hi, Bonnie. Hiya, Pinky. 252 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Hi, kid. Hey, you're looking great. Not that you hadn't ought to be. 253 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Yeah, we missed you, Vic. But we've been reading all about you in the society columns. 254 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Yeah, you've been living up there in a fatted land for quite a while. 255 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Yeah. But near six months, Vic. 256 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:26,000 That's right. 257 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 So, we've been sort of expecting you. 258 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 That's where I figure. That's why I come. 259 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 And I hope you're ready to talk business, Vic, because we are. 260 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,000 That's why I'm here. 261 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Okay, okay. So let's we start talking. 262 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Listen, Bonnie, look. Wait a minute. 263 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Suppose, suppose I figured out a better way. 264 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 A better way to what? 265 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 A better way to get Doe out of the setup. 266 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 How much, Doe? 267 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Maybe a million dollars. 268 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,000 A million dollars? Are you kidding? 269 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 What's the matter with a million dollars? 270 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Nothing. Only my way we get about ten times that much, and that's what we're in this for, 271 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 and that's what we're gonna get, see? 272 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 I might even be able to get more than a million in time. 273 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 You're not trying to tell me you're getting soft, are you, Vic? 274 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I don't like murder, that's all. 275 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 And you wouldn't try to tell me you've fallen for the dame, would you? 276 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Well, what if I did? 277 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Because I wouldn't believe you. 278 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 I've known you for a long time, Vic, and I know you ain't that kind of a guy. 279 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 No, I wouldn't figure it that way, Vic. 280 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 No. 281 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:25,000 No. I'd figure that maybe you were getting away with it up there a lot better than you expected, 282 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 and you didn't see no reason for not hanging on to the rest of the Doe. 283 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 All by yourself. 284 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Oh, no, no. I don't like murder, Bonnie. 285 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Maybe you don't. I can see how maybe you wouldn't. 286 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 But I put my Doe under this. I put my brains into it. 287 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 It's the biggest thing that anybody's ever pulled. Ten million bucks! 288 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,000 And I ain't taking any less. It's my way. 289 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Or else? 290 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Well, what about it? 291 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Okay. 292 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 That's better. 293 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 You got it all figured out? 294 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 With the accident? 295 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Sure, a burglary. Pinky here breaks in. 296 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 You and her hear the noise, you go down and find Pinky at the wall safe. 297 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:01,000 You got one, haven't you? 298 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Yeah, in the library. 299 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:03,000 So you catch Pinky and you shoot. 300 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Only you hit her. 301 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 I do. Why not Pinky? 302 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:11,000 No, no, no. If it's an outside job, they'll keep looking for the guy and that might find him. 303 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 And if you do it, it's an accident. Open and shut. 304 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 No more trouble. You like it? 305 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Sure, it's great. 306 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,000 You got a gun, haven't you? Registered to you? 307 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Yeah, for the house. 308 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Use that. 309 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Want to set a time? 310 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Sooner the better. Friday night? Friday night. 311 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Okay, Pinky? 312 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Sure, any time. 313 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Check with me Thursday, okay? 314 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Okay. 315 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 And Vic? 316 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Yeah? 317 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Don't miss. 318 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,000 Hello? 319 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Hello, Helen? 320 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Yeah? 321 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,000 This is Vic. Victor Ruttega. 322 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Vic! Why, you old so-and-so. I never thought I'd ever hear from you again. 323 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Look, Helen, I want you to help me. 324 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Why, sure. What is it? 325 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 I wouldn't ask you, Helen, but I'm on a spot. 326 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Yeah, I was on a spot once, too, remember? 327 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 What do you want? 328 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,000 You're a good kid, Helen. Now listen, I can't tell you over the phone and don't talk to anybody, 329 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,000 not to anybody, until I tell you. But what are you doing Friday night? 330 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Whatever you say. 331 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Okay, I'll be in touch with you. Remember, Friday night. 332 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Yes? 333 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Hello, Madeline? 334 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Well, Vic. 335 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Look, hon, look. I think Arrowhead this weekend would be a great idea. What do you say? 336 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Vic, that's wonderful. Well, I'll start getting things ready right away. When do you think you're leaving? 337 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 What about first thing Friday morning? 338 00:15:52,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Well, Vic, fine. That's wonderful, darling. Friday morning. 339 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,000 It's about 90 miles to Arrowhead, and I usually make it in two hours easy the way I drive. 340 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:15,000 But this time I guess my mind was on almost everything except my driving. 341 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 You made up your mind pretty suddenly, didn't you, darling? 342 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 About what? 343 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 About coming up here. 344 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Oh, I, well, I don't know. I... 345 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Vic! Vic, please, not so fast on these turns. 346 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Fast? It was too slow a while back. 347 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Well, a while back it was too slow. You were crawling. 348 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Why did you tell the servants to go away for the weekend? 349 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 Away? I didn't tell them to go away. 350 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Well, the way you said it, it meant that. 351 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Well, we were going to be away. I figured they might like a little vacation too. 352 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Oh, I see. Vic, what is it? 353 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 What's what? 354 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 What's the matter? 355 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Nothing the matter, Madeline. It's just business. Business, that's all. 356 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Victor, I don't believe you. 357 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:54,000 What do you mean? 358 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 I mean, I don't believe it's business. I believe it's something else. 359 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Well, what else could it be? 360 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 I believe it's something about you and me. 361 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Oh, it isn't. It isn't, Madeline. It isn't. It's a deal, that's all. And the law will be over by a few days. 362 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Will it? 363 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Of course it will. 364 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Vic, I love you. I could never fool myself about that. 365 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I'd do something... I'd do something awful if anything ever came between you and me. 366 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Anything or anyone. 367 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,000 I know, Madeline. 368 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,000 You don't want to talk about it, do you? 369 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 I can't, Madeline. 370 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000 All right, all right. Remember, anything or anyone. 371 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,000 We got up to the cabin around noon and I helped her unpack and we changed and I moped around a couple of hours stalling. 372 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000 And then I knew I couldn't stall much longer and I had to come out with it. 373 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Vic, I thought we were going to go riding after we had... 374 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Oh, Madeline. 375 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 What? 376 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Madeline, I just thought of something terrible. 377 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 What? What is it? 378 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,000 I got an appointment to see a guy tonight in town. 379 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Oh. 380 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Oh, I don't see how I could have forgotten it. 381 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,000 I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 382 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,000 I'm sorry. 383 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 I'm sorry. 384 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 I'm sorry. 385 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 I'm sorry. 386 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 I'm sorry. 387 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Oh, I don't see how I could have forgotten it, but it's terribly important. 388 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 I'll just have to go. 389 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Yes, I suppose you will. 390 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 But I'll be back first thing in the morning. 391 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,000 I'll have to take the car, but they'll loan you a station wagon at the hotel if you're going to be going anywhere. 392 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Yes, yes. 393 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Will you be staying at the house? 394 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Oh, yeah, yeah, sure. 395 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 I... 396 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Oh, Madeline, don't look at me that way. 397 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Please, you understand how it is, don't you? 398 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Yes, Vic, I think I do. 399 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:30,000 I drove on down feeling like the world's worst healer and scared and excited too. 400 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,000 I called Helen and told her how to get out there and where to leave her car 401 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,000 and how to get in without anyone seeing her in case they were already watching the joint. 402 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:41,000 It was good and dark about 8 o'clock when I let her in. 403 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Am I on time? 404 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Sure, swell. 405 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Boy, what a dump. 406 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Yeah, yeah, it's quite a place, isn't it? 407 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 It's awful empty, though. 408 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,000 I had an idea it was kind of a party or something. 409 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 It is, kind of. 410 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 The people I'm expecting will be along later now. 411 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Come on up this way. 412 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Gee, I knew you'd married into the gravy, Vic, but I didn't know it was anything like this. 413 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,000 You coming here? 414 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 No, what's this? 415 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 A bedroom, dressing room. 416 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 So this is what rich people call a bedroom. 417 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Look at the mirrors. 418 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Yeah, yeah, look, Helen, Helen, can you put your hair up over your head? 419 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 You know, that sort of crown business on top? 420 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Like this? Sure. 421 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Yeah. 422 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 That part of the act? 423 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Yeah, that's it. 424 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,000 And while you're at it, put on this nightgown, will you? 425 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,000 And the dressing gown, too. 426 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 And there ought to be some slippers in there that will fit you. 427 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Now, wait a minute. 428 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Now, wait a minute, Helen, it's nothing like that. 429 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 I'll wait outside. 430 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Vic, it is one of those divorce things, is it? 431 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 No, like I said, it's a sort of a gag. 432 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Okay, you're the doctor. 433 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000 And what's that? 434 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Phone. 435 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Aren't you going to answer it? 436 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Probably isn't important. 437 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Well, who do you suppose it could be? 438 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I don't know, I don't know. 439 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Vic, it might be your wife. 440 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Yeah, yeah, it might be. 441 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Well, for heaven's sake, why don't you answer it? 442 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000 I can't answer it. 443 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Oh, all right, all right, all right. 444 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 Oh, gee, these things have your wife and darling. 445 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,000 How do I look, huh? 446 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:14,000 You look just about right. 447 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000 I hated the part about Helen, but I know I didn't stand a chance in the world 448 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 of getting Barney inside unless he thought he was seeing Madeline. 449 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 He'd never seen her, except from a distance, that lousy newspaper picture. 450 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 And what with the hair doing all, Helen looked pretty good. 451 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,000 And after a while, I went around the house, I put off all the lights, 452 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 and after that, we had to sit in the dark. 453 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,000 I didn't even dare talk to Helen anymore. 454 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Pretty soon, she just went to sleep, and I waited. 455 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,000 I heard a clock in the downstairs hall strike four, 456 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,000 and then right on the dot, I heard what I'd been waiting for. 457 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Helen, Helen, wake up. 458 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 What time is it? 459 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Shh, shh, shh. 460 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000 Come on, the people are here. 461 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 All right, aren't you going to put on the light? 462 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 When we get to the library. 463 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Now, you stay right behind me, and as quiet as you can, 464 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,000 and I'll shine a flashlight so you can see. 465 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 I can see. 466 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,000 And when I go in, you come in right behind me, close the door, 467 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 and just stand right there, right against the door. 468 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 All right. 469 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,000 All right, here we are. 470 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 All right, Pinky, drop that gun. 471 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 What's the idea, Vic? 472 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Just not taking any chances. 473 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Drop it! 474 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,000 Now, kick it across the floor, over to me. 475 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Bonnie outside? 476 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Yeah. 477 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Alone? 478 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Yeah. 479 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,000 I want you to go to that side door where you came in and whistled at him. 480 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 And when he shows, tell him we need him in here. 481 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 And that's all. 482 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Anything more and I shoot. 483 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Understand? 484 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 This ain't right, Vic. 485 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,000 When this happens, I want Bonnie in here. 486 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,000 Just in case you wouldn't want you and me to be the only suckers, would you? 487 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 That's right, too. 488 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 All right. 489 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Hey, Bonnie, we need you. 490 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,000 He's coming. 491 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Vic. 492 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 All right, all right. 493 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Put up your hands and keep him up. 494 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 What's the idea? 495 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Better go outside, baby. 496 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000 All right, Vic. 497 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000 That ain't your wife. 498 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Close the door after you. 499 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 What is this, the old double cross? 500 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Yeah. 501 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,000 The old double cross. 502 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,000 I don't, I don't, I don't. 503 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Vic. 504 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Oh, Vic, you killed him. 505 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 They broke into my house. They were burglars. 506 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 But that's Barney Bernard. 507 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 They broke into my house. 508 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Oh, Vic, I don't want to be mixed up in anything. 509 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 You're not going to be mixed up in anything. 510 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Nobody saw you come. Nobody will see you go. 511 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Is that why? 512 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 I mean, your wife nightgowned. 513 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 I'm sorry. I couldn't tell you more. 514 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000 I can't tell you now either, but you better get your things and scram. 515 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 I've got to call the cops. 516 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000 All right, Vic. 517 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000 What's that? 518 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Madeline. 519 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 I told you what I'd do, Vic. 520 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Madeline. 521 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Put down that gun. Listen, will you? 522 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 I'll do anything or anyone. 523 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Madeline. 524 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 There it is, Harry. 525 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,000 But remember, you said the D.A.'s office would lay off her. 526 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 That's right. 527 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,000 You better lie down there. 528 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Look. 529 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 You can't just lie there. 530 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 I'm not lying. 531 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000 You're lying. 532 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000 You're lying. 533 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,000 You're lying. 534 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 You're lying. 535 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,000 You're lying. 536 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,000 You're lying. 537 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,000 You're lying. 538 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 You're lying. 539 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Look, Harry, do you think... 540 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Do you think the way it was... 541 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000 It might make a difference? 542 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 How? 543 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 To her? 544 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Yeah, Vic. Yeah. 545 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:45,000 I think it might. 546 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:57,000 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service. 547 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:26,000 The Armed Forces Radio Service. 548 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 The Armed Forces Radio Service.